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Washington Post is a cult.

You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN but really this article is clickbait designed to exploit a growing epistemological crisis in the west. The author is just describing a group with a history and traditions. While cults are also groups with tradition and sometimes history it’s well disingenuous to say THAT is their defining feature.

EDIT: I’d just like to be clear that Academia has definitely got serious issues. But a person who establishes PhD level credentials in Marxist social analysis at the top of the article sure does spew a ton of words about material conditions without ever naming capitalism as the issue and instead blames “academia.” Oh, professors and grad students are terribly overworked but also they are administering a cult?

> You’re gonna get downvoted because this is HN

I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult.

Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence, and he provided none.

i actually do believe the washington post and the entire media establishment is a cult. it worhships on the altar of neoliberalism and globalism

(((Globalism)))

Thank you for putting it so clearly. I'm afraid there are too many lost souls who think the 4th Estate still exists. Except for a few truth tellers here and there on the internet, it no longer does.

While what you’re saying is clearly factually true, what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal. I think it’s rather obvious he didn’t mean to imply WaPo was actually an organization similar to Om Shinrikyo. In all honesty I think if he’d have written some long form comment we’d all get the same point but have wasted far more time.

> what he’s done was apply a very common style of sarcastic dismissal

Perhaps common on Youtube comments.

> I think he's getting downvoted because the Washington Post is, almost unquestionably, not a cult.

And with that simple statement of fact, "pacifist" has been "intellectually pantsed."

LOL.

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